Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Reasons I am a terrible at this DJ thing:I don't care what anyone else wants to hear.I don't have sexy glossy photos.I don't network.I don't care about fashion.Instead of going to other DJ nights I stay home and work on noise projects.Chances are I do not have what you want to hear.I get confused as to why people aren't in to what I am doing, but strive to not actually care, and stay focused.

I feel like I need to wipe the slate clean of that pretension, get back to my original focus, and stop comparing myself to DJs that actually have "success" or "demand" or "buzz" or any of that, because really that's never what it was about, but somewhere along the way I lost the plot.

6:00pm “Outlet” (2006)Tells the personal stories of the teenagers
who participate in a support group offered by a Bay Area youth organization
called "Outlet."

6:25pm “In My Shoes: Stories of
Youth with LGBT Parents” (2005)Five
young people who are children of LGBT parents give you a chance to walk in
their shoes – to hear their own views on marriage, making change, and what it
means to be a family.

7:00pm “Put This On The Map”
(2010)Fed up with a lack of queer
visibility, twenty-six young people in Seattle’s eastside suburbs weave
together this ground-breaking narrative of shifting identities and a quest for
social change.

7:40pm “If She Grows Up Gay”
(1983)A blue collar
African-American mother, talks about her pregnancy and raising her daughter
with her lesbian lover.

8:10pm “And The March
Continues!” (1997)Presents a
history of the lesbian movement in Mexico from its origins to the present.

Jen Schande - I Really Like Sonic Youth, And I Really Want To Have Sex With You: The pulsing breathiness of the beat goes surprisingly well with the vocals, giving it a tad of a glitch instead of just oblitterating it. Deep goodness.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Gays and
Lesbians don’t grow up immersed in gay history, it is something they must
search for. Swimming with Lesbians explores an upstate New York community’s
efforts to create an LGBT historic archive.The archive is more than just the proof that the raw material of history
exists. It is for many an important acknowledgement of a struggle to be seen,
acknowledged and known.

Friday, October 12, 2012

blog 2012/10/12 - useless, forgotten, and working so heard like the rest of the hive

Andrew Bird - Desperation BreedsAndrew Bird - Orpheo Looks Back: I've had time to let it simmer, and the conclusion is in: Bird's new album Break It Yourself is recommended, a more folkpop take on an intersection of Sandro Perri and Fleet Foxes.

Bear Language - The Ventriloquist, Part 1Bear Language - The Ventriloquist, Part 2Bear Language - The Ventriloquist, Part 3: I was tempted to just conjoin these, but naaaaah, here's this lovely epic pop song, in its original sliced form.

Born Gold - Sky Bicycle: Gobble Gobble is now Born Gold, and here he fires up the vocal processor patch he borrowed from Ween and rocks it over a snap beat.

Cultfever - Knew You Well (Eight Bit Tiger Remix): I dropped the original here before, but I've been loving on this gigley electropop rework.

Dose One - Last LifeDose One - OwlShark: Are you a 13 & God fan? You'll be happy to know the new Dose One record starts from that point and keeps running. G is for Deep has similar structural similarities to the best of 13 & God, so you get all that minus the Acher crooning. Wholly unique and envigorating pop music, and definitely recommended for those in the know.

Erik Gundel - The Mountains Grow: Sweet and sentimental instrumental beauty from the album A Home to Keep You.

Ladyhawke - Sunday Drive (Villa Remix): Reminding me a bit of a Yeah Yeah Yeahs remix, this is just some straightup electropop fun.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Aaliyah - Enough Said ft Drake (Shlohmo Remix): Yes, it is only appropriate to bring back Aaliyah as a haunting demon of tragic regrets.

Ambassadeurs - My World: I bet you can't tell that I'm in to that drippy bass shit, right? Fucking GLIDE.

Chant of Victory - Right Now (80's Mix): This is what producers should be striving for: engineering your shit so it STRAIGHTUP 80S GOODNESS. This is some Kate Bush / Robin S pop brilliance right here.

Danny Brown - Die Like A Rockstar (Lou Cypher Remix): Love Danny's flow, but he always goes on too long and just says too much SHIT and then I'm all "meh, I don't need to listen to this…" but luckily this track is a distillation and doesn't overstay its welcome.

Dusky - No More: Sleep deep bass house vibes!

Echo Lake - Wild Peace: Sweet dream pop from the album Wild Peace.

Farleon - Millenium: HAPPY ELECTRO RAVE PARTY!

Ghost Loft - BlowGhost Loft - Seconds: Taking notes from The Weeknd, this is some chilled out rnb grooveness.

Horse Feathers - Fit Against The Country: The new album, Cynic's New Year, doesn't catch me like their last one, tragically. But check it out if you're down with the smooth roots folk.

Jack White - Blunderbuss: I never though I'd care about Jack White channelling his angsty Zeppelin, but here we are…

The Mountain Goats - Cry for Judas: Transcendental Youth is the new Mountain Goats album and yeah umm it hasn't seduced me nearly as much as I was hoping it would. And I'm a pretty huge MG fan. I'm going to let this one simmer.